encouraging congress to hold public hearings and build on what mueller uncovered say this is about national security and if nothing is done may embolden 2020. >> paula, thanks. seven u.s. service members have been killed in afghanistan this year, fighting america's longer war, the deadliest attack three who waid to rest. today in our series rica heroes warm onef the ws and two men who with. >> when christopher was killed in a road side bomb

in afghanistan was three weeks from going home. one of his fellow friends says -- >> i just wanted him home. everyone wanted him home. everyone missed him. i feel selfish about saying that, but man i couldn't wait until he got home. >> this week people lined over passes and highways in three states to watch chris's casket ride back from dover air force base. in 2014 he received distinguished medal in bravery. he will be building in arlington on april 30th surrounded by hundreds of firefighters and family including his daughters age 10, 8 and 4. and wife of 13 years, shannon. >> my husband was constantly a gentlemen. >> she's speaking publicly for the first time since his death on april 8th. >> i do better when i'm busy. idle time is not good.

evenings are hard. once the girls are in bed it's march hard, i have to figure healthy ways to fill the quiet. >> go you talk to him. >> oh, yeah. he's -- he's always with me. >> shannon isn't the only one still leaning on chris. >> i just say, hey, bud, don't let me screw this up, i got to take care of your family, because he would do the same for me. i just need to honor him by making sure that the girls know that their dad was the greatest man i've ever known. >> he's an individual who always wanted the next challenge. >> steven moore was chris's fire captain. >> he always wanted to better himself, to be the best. he felt he hone enoh b serving the city of new york in 15 years in fire department he

wanted to serve the country overseas and he did. >> who else would do it. he's saying if i do this maybe other people will start to do it. >> today chris's uniform and name plate remain up at the ladder 27 fire house in the bronx. >> he's always going to be here. you know, after arlington we don't just, nice seeing you. like. we are what we are. you're family. we're never going anywhere, whether you like it or not. but it doesn't matter if there's gear hanging here, doesn't matter what it is, he's here. he left his mark. he gave this fire house a gift and it's here, forever. >> if everybody could experience the type of love tt the world would et placwhen in, he was all in, in anything he did. and i have years and years and years of stories to tell our

girls so that they don't forget. >> want to thank shannon, kevin and steve for speaking with us and we thank chris and all for their service. up next, two migrant brothers reunited months after being separated at the border.

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months from the day after being separated from his eight-year-old brother. >> he's like a son to you. >> junior has raised andy for the last five years. they arrived in a border crossing october 17th after nearly 1500 mile month-longhond day was taken from his 21-year-old brother who was not considered his legal guardian. >> so you're an adult, he's a child. you can't be in the same place because you're not technically his father. >> it took 15 days before junior could finally speak to his younger brother. andy had been place in a foster care center nearly 2,000 miles away in new york city. with other kids his age. >> he could barely get through the call. he was crying. since he was three you're the only person he has known. >> last friday was the day the

brothers had waited se im >> si. >> paperwork in hand junior walked into the center alone and minutes later walked out with his arm tightly wrapped around andy's shoulder. their reunion was made possible by organization who assisted in the reun fiction of families. after a seemingly endless junior apart. >> he's like your father. >> they never lost hope they would see each other again. now andy is back with his big brother. >> what's the first thing you want to do. >> play. >> you want to play. >> and play he did. with junior finally at his side. cbs news, new york. >> they are back in houston waiting for a hearing waiting to be schedule in their asylum

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we end tonight on a remarkable role, james h fastest player in jeopardy history to win more than a million dollars. how's he running the board and breaking the bank. >> all of it. >> in the world of game shows, ltd he has no equal. >> last week the 34-year-old vegas resident broke jeopardy's single day record when he won over $131,000 and now holds six highest one day total during 14 day win streak averaging $75,000 a victory. significantly higher than the $20,000 per day average. >> the way he wages is aggressive. the professional sports gambler uses a method known atds horse bounce jumping from category to category looking for daily

doubles while keeping his opponents off balance. he's also known for betting big. he picks wagers that have personal meaning he won $110,914 in honor his daughter november 9, 2014 birthday. he had 497 correct compared 18 incorrect nailing 13 of 14 final jeopardy includes. first on the buzzer 57% of the time. >> and for you jeopardy fans, try this clue, $2.5 million. what are the record winning he is shooting for. cbs news new york. >> that's "cbs overnight" for this thursday for some of the news continues the for others check back later. from the broadcast center in new york city i'm jeff glor.

welcome to "cbs overnight." former vice president joe biden is expected to make it official today. he'll be joining the crowded race for the democratic nomination for president. biden is the 20th democrat to formerly announce, he will kick off his campaign on monday in pittsburgh. the incumbent, president trump declared it's enough, saying he will fight congressional subpoenas for his taxes and business records and one that would have his former white house lawyer testify. >> reporter: speaking in atlanta today president trump lambented his own battle with over sight.

>> i know all about rigging the system because i had the system rigged on me. i think you know what i'm talking about. >> before he left the white house the president vowed to defy subpoenas issued by house democrats. >> we're fighting all of the subpoenas, look these aren't impartial people. the democrats are trying to 20 they're not going to win with the people i see. and they're not going to win against me. >> the administration is trying to block at least three top officials from koormting with laurms including former white house counsel who provided damaging testimony to special counsel robert mueller. >> the president has also sued house over sight president elijah cummings to keep records secret.

>> he accused the president of trying to prevent congress from >> it's impossible to make the president accountable if we cannot have access to information. >> the president said the white house should not have to cooperate with congressional investigations after it already did so with the special counsel and if the democrats move to impeach him the president says he will head to the supreme court. measles, which was eradicated in the united states decades ago is spreading like wild fire from coast-to-coast. the epicenter is a orthodox jewish community in brooklyn, new york. >> more than 80% of cases occurred here in brooklyn where the new york city health department said the count up to 390 from 359 last week, including two pregnant women, neither is hospitalitized. >> we are really concerned. >> the deputy director of the cdc says -- >> -- some of the outbreaks are

not under control and i expect the numbers to rise. >> there's been other outbreaks washington state and this week in los angeles. two weeks ago an emergency order was issued requiring everybody over six months to receive at least one dose of the measles vaccine or have proof they've already been immunized. >> i hope parents can realize measles could be serious and making sure their children receive this safe and effective vaccine is important. >> there's a concept called herd immunity, that means if enough people get immunized protects those who have not. when parents decide to notim you knowize them they are rolling the dice for others, for babies, too young, people with canc and those with weaken immune

system and for those two pregnant women. 7 u.s. service members have been killed in afghanistan fighting america's longest war, deadliest attack came this month when taliban bomb killed three. we spoke with one's family and friends in this morning's american heroes. >> when christopher was killed in a road side bomb in afghanistan was three weeks from going home. one of his fellow friends says -- >> i just wanted him home. everyone wanted him home. everyone missed him. i feel selfish about saying that, but man i couldn't wait until he got home. >> this week people lined over passes and highways in three states to watch chris's casket ride back from dover air force base. in 2014 he received distinguished medal in bravery.

forfite familyncluding his daughters and wife of 13 years, shannon. >> my husband was constantly a gentlemen. >> she's speaking publicly for the first time since his death on april 8th. >> i do better when i'm busy. idle time is not good. evenings are hard. once the girls are in bed it's hard, i have to figure healthy ways to fill the quiet. >> do you talk to him? >> oh, yeah. he's -- he's always with me. >> shannon isn't the only one still leaning on chris. >> i just say, hey, bud, don't let me screw this up, i got to take care of your family, because he would do the same for me. making surat the girls know

ma e e's anndividual whwa wanted the next challenge. >> he always wanted to better himself, to be the best. he felt he hadn't done enough by serving the city of new york in 15 years in fire department he wanted to serve the country overseas and he did. >> who else would do it. he's saying if i do this maybe other people will start to do it. >> today chris's uniform and name plate remain up at the ladder 27 fire house in the bronx. >> he's always going to be here. you know, after arlington we don't just, nice seeing you. like. we are what we are. you're family. we're never going anywhere, whether you like it or not. but it doesn't matter if there's gear hanging here, doesn't matter what it is, he's here. he left his mark.

he gave this fire house a gift and it's here, forever. >> if everybody could experience the type of love that i've had, the world would be a better place. when we say that chris was all in, he was all in, in anything he did. and i have years and years and years of stories to tell our girls so that they don't forget. how blessed they were to have him as a dad. and for me to have him as a husband. >> "cbs overnight" will be right back.

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this is "the cbs overnight news." spring is in full bloom from coast-to-coast. but in another world winter is coming. final season of the blockbuster hbo series "game of thrones" is marching on. if you're not a fan you may wonder how a series of fantasy novels turned into one of the most popular television series ever made. we take you behind the camera, for 60 minutes. ♪ >> "game of thrones" is set in the mythical seven kingdoms of wester rose whose ruler he iron throne. >> feuding families vie for power. >> i have only loved one woman. >> manipulation of murder, tools

of the trade. >> your sister. >> a giant wall winter has come and with it the threat of total annihilation from a seemingly unstoppable army of the dead. >> for you, what is the show about? >> power. >> power. >> what it does to someone. how much we covet it. how it goes wrong. in the wrong hands. and how different it is when you have it versus when you are coveting it. >> she plays the mother of dragons. raise dragons and has killed a lot of people in her quest to take the iron throne. >> extraordinary the sheer number of ways that people are killed. >> oh, it's incredible. we're really killing good. >> she's pretty old school with her burning. >> and dragons like to eat people. >> indeed but they like to char them. they like their meat cooked.

>> it's a hard fall down these steps. >> this actress is a teen anyoner seeking revenge for the murder of her father. >> how many people have you killed? >> oh, gosh i lost count in the book she has the highest kill count. >> williams was 12 when "game of thrones" started she's now 22. this was her first acting job. >> i didn't even want to be an actor. i wanted to be a dancer and my second audition was for "game of thrones" and it all just -- >> -- there are actors all over the world right now listening to that screaming. >> things i do for love. >> the novelist behind this murder and magic. in 1996 he published the first in his series of books called "song of ice and fire" and for years hollywood tried to turn his books into movies. >> their approach was to simplify. these books are too big. we have to cut it down.

i didn't want it simplified so i said repeatedly the sexiest word in hollywood. no. >> that's the sexiest word in hollywood. >> no. i don't want to do it. until david and dan came among. >> at the time they were young screen writers and novelists with no television experience but they loved the massive scale of martin's story. >> i mean, no disrespect, you were relatively novice in this realm of television. >> it's not disrespectful it's a fact we never had produced anything. >> we thought we were facing a uphill battle to explain to him why he should avoid these film offers and accept these two guys who never made a television show in their lives. >> really he just wanted to know if be knew the books. >> they knew the books and convinced if hbo signed on they with make a epic series true to

his story. >> i knew none of the conventional networks would put it on without taking out all of the sex and violence and make it a kiddy know at 8:00 i wasn't going to let it happen. >> hbo agreed seeing it about much more. >> if you have a story about the human heart in conflict with itself, about very basic human emotions, about love and ambition, and greed for power, it doesn't matter if there's a dragon in it or it takes place on an alien planet or in mississippi. >> human stories are human stories. >> the rest is just furniture. >> i drink and i know things. >> that focus on the humanity of the characters is what appealed to the outcast member of the ruling family of wester rose. he was the first actor to sign

on despite resident servation s about the fantasy genre. >> dwarves are typically relegated to other comic relief or angry warriors without romance and human characteristics but that doesn't attract me as an actor but this character has all of that and then some. >> he recommended the one to play his sister. the cunning and ruthless. >> i love my brother. >> by the way she also happens to be an a relationship with her other brother. jamie. >> i read the script was like who what. i couldn't remember half the characters. >> it is confusing. >> and you don't remember the names. >> i felt that too. who is going to watch incestous twins and dragons. i was like i don't know.

>> "game of thrones" was shot in ten different countries at dozen of locations , many in remote and december late places. hundreds of crew members worked behind the scenes and in all more than 12,000 extras were used. . attention to detail was critical. major battle scenes sometimes took week to shoot and had to be carefully choreographed. and then tre challenge was making them as life like as possible especially when actress a melia clark was supposed to be ride ogden on them in a process called previsualization. she was then filmed riding what in early episodes whats a pretty low tech contraption. >> you were riding on a hard green shell. >> yeah and there was a pole on the end and dudes on the end.

i'm there trying to go bad ass. everyone's like you don't look bad ass you look like you're on a broom stick. people are looking at it like that looks kind of weird. >> doesn't look weird when edited together with special effects. some of the most important sets, they actually built from the ground up. like castle black which is in a quarry outside belfast. >> it's so interesting that you feel this is an actual castle that's been here hundreds of years, it's not some cgi creation. >> that's always what i thought with thrones was amazing there's a level of details that went beyond what the audience would see. >> john snow was killed and magically brought back to life. other main characters weren't so lucky.

sean bean character appeared to be one of the most important characters but got his head chopped before the end of season one. >> i could not believe you killed off ned star. >> i have a bionaoodth >> in person you don't seem blood thirsty. >> dallas sta"star wars" kills e than i do. they unleashed the death star on the planet. >> you don't know who will be living on that planet. >> exactly. i try to make you feel the deaths, i don't have necessarily more but try to make you feel it more. >> all ned was killed all of the actors realized their characters could be next. >> we get all of the script for the package and i always go to the end to see if i die. you want to go out in a heroic way at least. don't want to go off screen hey did you hear about it. what.

you don't want to go out that way. >> the level of brutality in "game of thrones" has been controversial. particularly scenes of sexual violence and degrading treatment of women. actors say there's a reason for showing it all. >> terrible things happen to some of the women on the show. >> this story is lu loosely based on the war of the roses. i would say learn. learn that this is what has happen in history, and this is not what needs to happen in the future. >> this is a show that shows w thelity of it, unpleasant ugly nature of what human beings are capable of doing to other human beings. >> now plans to shoot a prepasqual andhbo intends to turn the locations into tourist

attractions, props use the in the show store in a warehouse outside belfast. >> it's a baby dragon. wow. >> for fans of the series it's like visiting a shrine stacks of bodies from bat 8s and dragon head skulls and one ever the famous costumes which weighs about 30 pounds. >> i can barely hold this thing. >> yeah. >> wow. >> remember ned stark who lost his head in season one. we found it. >> we got ned's head. >> that's ned's head. >> you can see the full report including anderson cooper being

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sfor years now major league baseball has had a tough time attracting the best young, black athletes. most are into football, basketball and even soccer recently. one fr major leaguer is looking to change that. >> reporter: on this field in northern california, jerry manual is staging a baseball come back. >> one to three, family. >> he's getting young, black athletes back in the game. >> this was farm land. this was high grass. this was anything but a baseball field. >> manuel built the field and their interest in the game. he is 65, aan soin theseays.since the number

players on major league rosters has dropped from 19% to 8%. tra charge a thousand dollars a month. >> not happening. >> not happening. i got to do what i can with my experience and resources to make a change. >> in 2013 he launched alpha charter high school. it's baseball-themed curriculum emphasizes excellence through repetition in the classroom and on the field and teaches jackie robinson character value, determination, team work. >> you can't get on the field until you get that right. once that's right then you can get on the field. >> you got to earn it. >> you got to earn it. >> more than 30 kids play here now. most from challenging backgrounds. some have been homeless. >> does your family have the money to do travel ball. >> no, no sir.

>> ronnie belton is 17 and has a scholarship to play college baseball. >> i didn't have ahet haveinanc talbot. i wantfi way to help my family out. >> baseball could be your ticket. >> yes, sir. >> the goal is to make them a better man, better human being, put your best foot forward. if you can learn self discipline you got a chance to make some end roads in life. >> they'll play on prettier fields but this is the one they'll always remember. cbs news alberta, california. >> and that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some the news continues, for others check back a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning from the broadcast center in new york city

captioning funded by cbs ing captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, april 25th. this is the "cbs morning news." a power struggle in washington. president trump says if democrats try to impeach him, he'll turn to the supreme court. a one-on-one with russian president vladimir putin and north korean leader kim jong-un. the high hopes for this historic meeting. and the parents of a missing 5-year-old boy are now charged with his murder. the disturbing details revealed. good morning from the stuio